Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/plúsis
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This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Proto-Indo-European
Reconstruction
The original PIE form was distorted by folk etymologies in various daughters, though most of them point to something like *plúsis, with the voiceless initial stop, and the root sequence of *-lu-. Other variant root forms are *plows- *pusl-, *psul- or *bʰlus-.
Noun
*plúsis
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Proto-Albanian: *pleustā < *plews-
- Albanian: plesht
- Armenian: < *pluso-
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *blúšāˀ < *b(ʰ)lus-eh₂ (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *flauhaz < *plówkos (see there for further descendants)
- Hellenic: < *psuly(e)h₂ < *plus-y(e)h₂
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *plúšiš
- Italic: < *puslek- < *plus-ek-
- Latin: pūlex (see there for further descendants)
References
- Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 206